Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community

Nope that’s not a joke – today we announced we’re contributing Linux device drivers to Linux Community under a GPLv2 license. The drivers aim to ensure Linux can run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V. More specifically, they enable Linux to run in enlightened mode affording the same optimized synthetic devices as a Windows virtual machine running on top of Hyper-V.

I’m no expert on this stuff but this seems like a big deal to me. Check out more in the video and press release and if you have questions, our man Sam Ramji is on Twitter too.

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• Anonymous
  July 20, 2009
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• Anonymous
  July 20, 2009
  thanks DrGnu, I consider myself more educated on Linux following that

• Anonymous
  July 20, 2009
  Perhaps this cartoon explains it better? http://xkcd.com/501/

• Anonymous
  July 20, 2009
  This one is my favorite though: http://xkcd.com/225/